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The Train and the Telegraph

A Revisionist History

By: Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

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The Train and the Telegraph

A Revisionist History

By: Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.

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JHU Press

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1421429756

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A Self-Made Man

The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849

By: Sidney Blumenthal

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A Self-Made Man

The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849

By: Sidney Blumenthal

The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor). From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible. In the “fascinating” (Booklist, starred review) A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincoln’s antislavery thinking began in his childhood in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Yet he was a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. “The Lincoln of Blumenthal’s pen is…a brave progressive facing racist assaults on his religion, ethnicity, and very legitimacy that echo the anti-Obama birther movement….Blumenthal takes the wily pol of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals and goes deeper, finding a Vulcan logic and House of Cards ruthlessness” (The Washingtonian). Based on prodigious research of Lincoln’s record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthal’s robust biography reflects both Lincoln’s time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. This first volume traces Lincoln from his birth in 1809 through his education in the political arts, rise to the Congress, and fall into the wilderness from which he emerged as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. “Splendid…no one can come away from reading A Self-Made Man…without eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes.” (Washington Monthly).

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576

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Simon and Schuster

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1476777276

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9781476777276

Life of John Keats

By: Sidney Colvin

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Life of John Keats

By: Sidney Colvin

Reproduction of the original: Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin

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570

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734035872

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9783734035876

A Happy Life

From Courtroom to Classroom

By: Sidney B. Silverman

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A Happy Life

From Courtroom to Classroom

By: Sidney B. Silverman

After retiring from a successful law practice, Silverman enrolled in graduate school and at age 74 received a master's degree.

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270

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iUniverse

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1440150850

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9781440150852

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs

A Bibliography and Iconography

By: Sidney Jackson Jowers

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Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs

A Bibliography and Iconography

By: Sidney Jackson Jowers

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1136746420

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9781136746420

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

By: Randall Frakes,Brooks Peck,Sidney Perkowitz,Matt Singer,Gary K. Wolfe,Lisa Yaszek

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James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

By: Randall Frakes,Brooks Peck,Sidney Perkowitz,Matt Singer,Gary K. Wolfe,Lisa Yaszek

This companion to the AMC’s mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron’s archives. For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the greatest minds in the genre discuss key topics including alien life, time travel, outer space, dark futures, monsters, and intelligent machines. An in-depth interview with Cameron is also featured, plus essays by experts in the science fiction field on the main themes covered in the show. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concept art from Cameron’s personal archives, plus imagery from iconic sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction offers a sweeping examination of a genre that continues to ask questions, push limits, and thrill audiences around the world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1683835905

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9781683835905

Without Blare of Trumpets

Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-57

By: Sidney Fine

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Without Blare of Trumpets

Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-57

By: Sidney Fine

A critical era in the development of American labor relations

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410

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University of Michigan Press

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0472105760

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9780472105762

Crow Dog's Case

American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sidney L. Harring

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Crow Dog's Case

American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sidney L. Harring

The first social history of American Indians' role in the making of American law sheds new light on Native American struggles for sovereignty and justice during the "century of dishonor," a time when their lands were lost and their tribes reduced to reservations.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521467152

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9780521467155

Book's by Sidney Scott

The Train and the Telegraph

The Train and the Telegraph

A Self-Made Man

A Self-Made Man

Life of John Keats

Life of John Keats

A Happy Life

A Happy Life

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Without Blare of Trumpets

Without Blare of Trumpets

Crow Dog's Case

Crow Dog's Case

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